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Here we go, day 3 of the 5 Days of Nexus! All week long, we’ll be handing out brand new Nexus devices to the greatest tech community on the planet. Yes, I’m referring to you, the readers of Droid Life. We have already handed out a Nexus 4 and Nexus 7, but we have more to come. Over the next two days, another couple of lucky readers’ days will walk away with Nexus 7s, followed by one last contest on Friday with a prize still to be determined. So let’s do day 3!

As we did with yesterday’s contest, we’re using Rafflecopter. It allowed readers to enter in a variety of ways to gain multiple entries, one of which only asks that you leave a comment. The process also made it incredibly easy for us to choose a winner.

Well, I doubt I can beat KleenDroid’s epic comment, but I can certainly try.

Describe Android’s place in my heart?
Oh gosh, where do I start?
The customization and themes
The widgets that make their way into my nightly dreams
The ability to easily root
A point which is never moot
The ROMs I oh so love
Some of which fit like a glove
But at the end of the day the one thing to say
Is Android for life, I’d have it no other way

Before sitting down with Android 2.1 for the first time, I thought I’d never see a reason to ditch my iPhone. Luckily, with the iPhone 4, Apple made my decision to jump ship pretty easy. Now I can’t picture iOS being able to provide anything close to the experience I have come to expect every day from using Android.

Ryan Taylor

I have two loves in my life; my family and my Android. And they both ROCK!

i love android simply because, if you want it to happen, you can make it happen. no restrictions no lockdowns, no bullsh*t. I like to feel like I own my device and can make it what I want of it. Right now, a nexus 7 would be awesome to play Ingress on.!!

Andy Racic

I just won an iPad via a contest at work. I haven’t even used it yet. Let me get an Nexus 7!

EvanTheGamer

If you win, SELL your iPad so you can just use your N7.

Sean

Android is my (current) favorite mobile OS. 🙂

Droidzilla

I love Android like a street hooker loves crack.

Zacharypt

Android is the community that sees life for what it is. We can identify our flaws, and we also know the limitless possibilities of what our devices can evolve into.

traumadog

Still on?

John

Nexi are great

Skey

Pick Me!

BenBerstler

just before I saw the paycheck for $4781, I have faith that…my… father in law was like they say trully erning money in their spare time at there computar.. there neighbor has done this 4 less than sixteen months and by now cleard the mortgage on there house and bourt McLaren F1. read more atadf… http://www.youtube.com.qr.net/kaE2

mercutio

Nexus for me plizzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

soultoasty

IO conference seems so far way. cant wait to see the new tablets from google.

Every time I see someone using an Apple product I’m reminded of how great Android is. Android takes the handcuffs off of our imagination, we can customize nearly every aspect of it and when we get bored we can create a totally new experience again and again. I wouldn’t consider anything else, I love it 🙂

Nick Norman

I flash, I flash all day long.
I flash, I flash til the break of dawn.
I flash, I flash on Androids front lawn.
If there was an Android front lawn to flash on!

I love Android soooo much that I am going to spend the rest of my life working toward a medical degree. Once I have that degree, I will do a study and prove once and for that the medical experts have been wrong for so many years and make the following the most common medical catch phrase.
“An Android a Day keeps the doctor away”.
It will be an tough goal achieve, but someone’s got to do it.

I’m just going to be blunt and say that this comment was created solely for the selfish purpose of winning a free Nexus 7. I have nothing crafty or witty to say like @KleenDroid:disqus and his creative banter, but I want that Nexus just as badly as he does! Unashamedly yours, CopierITGuy

Never been so free to do as I please by not being oppressed and set free like that unique hawk way up there with many possibilities and innovations never seeking to settle for less or to be like the competition, like a hawk above many free I shall be away from tyranny of being dictated on how should I look and speak, free is that as android has its wings to see all possibilities amongst every class.

I love how android is so open. no jailbreaking needed to do 3/4 of the things you cant do on ios

Oscar Maradiaga

i would love to win this nexus tablet pick me

raoul duke

am i too late?

Zack Stewart

I love android! And I am a recovering iOS victim. My mobile smartphone and tablet life began with iOS and then I got a job in IT at a company that uses all Android and I quickly learned the error of my ways. Now I love droid for fun, practicality, and because it pays the bills! Pick me please!!!

I am at a ski resort setting up my proposal to my long time girlfriend, hours away from asking and yet droid-life has me again. Ah the good things in life. By that I mean my nexus devices, no I mean my girlfriend, no wait. Oh god don’t make me choose!

Android has save my arse several time being a person with a disability, my Nexus phone helped me replace a flat tire on my wheelchair in the middle of nowhere by finding a places that would sell and install for me while remaining in my car, which took 45 minutes instead of all day or a week, and prevented more damage from not having to roll on a flat rim.

Love My android phone, every disabled person should have one as a necessity

ive loved android since day 1 of OG droid and converted from the iphone and would not trade it for anything

curtis206

It’s good stuff

DroidJerk

I’m a simple man, with a simple dream. To have a Nexus 7 to cherish as my own, and that’s it. And this ash tray. This ash tray and a Nexus 7, that’s all I need. And this paddle game. A Nexus, the paddle game, and the ash tray, I don’t need one single thing more not one. I need this. These matches, the paddle game, a Nexus 7 and the ash tray and that’s it.

I love Android because I have freedom to do what I want. Don’t like your launcher? Change it! Don’t like your OS? Maybe there is a better one! Want to install apps from multiple markets, or right from the developer? No problem!

valapsp

I want you baby.

Juan Ochoa

I wanna make out with Android.

Aaron Mccallie

I love customizing,
No matter how hard I be try-zing,
Nothing beats ol’ Androids feats,
And I’m certainly not a-ly-zing!

@UVAMike456

Android is the greatest operating system for any device with any processor in the history of computing!

I’ve always loved the ability to customize things. So when I first got my Droid X and started playing around with it, I knew that with Android, customization is the KEY aspect in the mobile OS. I just love the ability to make my phone MY PHONE. With Android, it’s ALL ABOUT FREEDOM; freedom to do what you want with your phone because it’s YOUR PHONE!

I’ll never go to any other mobile operating system because Android is everything I would EVER want in a mobile OS.

Pick me, I need to upgrade, I have the OG Transformer, it’s already old.

Undarated

Android to me while not perfect in and of itself is the best OS for phones. With its ability to be skinned, ROM’d, sliced or untouched and still be functional that is completely amazing. I enjoy the pace at which it grows and continues to evolve. The journey from what it was to what it is and soon what it will be. Android is in my estimation the reason to have a smartphone with its slick presentation and uber customization what else could a guy with a phone ask for except maybe a hot chick to…. anyway I think you all get my point.

Android’s customization capability is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I never thought I’d use a phone or a tablet more than my laptop, but with Android that became true. The possibilities are endless!

66pens

More flexible

oliman37

I think enough of android to get my entire family using Android phones, 9 people and counting

Android is the first mobile operating system that I fell in love with, since my Nexus One, I don’t look at the other mobile operating systems anymore. From Eclair to Jelly Bean, I haven’t looked anywhere else.

I like androids choice. I can customize my layout, change my backgrounds, have a clock widget I like right on my main screen. My options are ever changing with androids growing library of user made apps!

Android is in the blood amazing open ended software what more can you ask for. You aren’t tied like you are with apple the only thing that is holding you back at times is your phone. Android also makes some of the best tablets to hit the market in a long time as well.

I definitely love the android experience. Rooting opens up such a realm of possibilities that it is exciting. It allows you to unleash your creative vein and grow. Viva la DroidLife!!! Tha no you so much!

Android is simple, flexible, and full featured. Coming from iOS, I just love how everything just works, and I can extend functionality with widgets and such.

Justin Oliver

I need more devices for my kids.

Behace

I love android

Maria Tinoco

why o why do I love androids?

no contracts, all lively visuals, I feel my phone is another part of me : ) the android in me : ) information at my finger tips, like a small computer ready to be used. google google google everything. the best part is they don’t talk back or give you attitude when you ask a question. and they only ask for money once a month when it is time to pay your service fee LOL : )

Justin Latham

I love how easy it is and then how complex it can be at the same time.I just wish that I could get my wife to understand how amazing it is she just wont move from the iphone… it makes me so sad and may ruin my marriage…. well lets hope not.

Better keyboards. I email/text a lot. The ability to swipe and/or tap to type, not to mention the suggestion bar, a personal dictionary that can be edited, the auto-corrections, all makes typing on Android a pleasure.

jdbarn

My brother in law works for Google and every time I see the newest Nexus that he has before it’s released I beg him to give it to me. Every incarnation makes it better and more fun and the community is unlike any other!

Brandon Guttery

I love android so much! Best phone os ever!

linda

droid rules iphones any dayyyyyyyyy

ladyrin

I want…

Lewis Erbe

Android is where its at because it is an OPEN and completely customizable OS.

I love Android so much that I have blogged about it and converted my whole family.

grant

Give it to meee

Jon Lambert

My love for Android is the reason I check Engadget, Techcrunch, Droid-Life, AndroidSPIN, the Google blogs, and Google+ multiple times in a row, multiple times per day, looking for information about the next revolution in Android.

When I get a Nexus 7 (no matter how I get it), I will modify it to make calls, send texts, and use it as my main Android device (as i’m currently stuck with a glitchy Droid Bionic as my only Android device). I’ll also root it, put a bunch of customizations on it, and also try the Ubuntu mobile preview.

I love Android because it’s all about CHOICE and competition. There’s a phone for everyone (big, small, cheap, expensive, qwerty, long battery life, fast, etc), and many companies (Samsung, Moto, HTC, LG, Sony, etc) compete to attract the most customers to their hardware. Just wish Sammy wasn’t dominating right now, but hopefully it inspires more competition. HTC’s One definitely seems up to par, now let’s see what Moto has to offer!

Android & me have been together since the HTC Hero on Sprint. We’ve grown & matured over the years with her different shapes, sizes & form factors. I had her with many different nicknames. From the Hero, EVO, Nexus 4G, & Galaxy Nexus to the Nexus 4 in a couple of weeks. I loved her threw & threw. The early years I loved her more with make up on. But as the years went by & we both grew. She became more gorgeous & elegant without. I can’t see my life without Android. I’ll never let her go.

My android love is in my veins
Ever since I saw the gains
That with android I obtain
I hope it’s not in vain
The love for android in my veins

Abdallah Hirbawi

pick me pick me I don’t even have a tablet!

Michael J

If I weren’t A.D.D. to the extreme I would love to start developing apps for android…unfortunately I get distracted by other shiny things… Like the lights on my computer xD You know you have an android addiction when 80 out of the 120 tabs on your computer are Android/XDA related…

I love that Android is open source! 🙂 (And anyone worried about Samsung forking Android should just consider that that’s both the risk and the advantage of putting out open source code. Now to convince Google to open up their development model, too…. oh well. i guess that’s what the custom ROMs are for.)

Marco Mendoza

Need s new nexus 7 my son broke mine

Nick Notte

Need more Nexus.

Ezra Farber

I love android because I can personalize my interface to the point that it’s virtually unusable by anyone else!

Android is my OS of choice because of the awesome customization features and tight integration with Google services.

Jerry

I love Android because it sets me apart from pretty everyone else I know. I love that my phone is almost completely different even though one might have the same phone and/or use the same OS.

Carol D Scott

Google’s Nexus as long as its not on Verizon updates first…it doesn’t have to through Samsung, HTC, etc. changes to adapt it to their phone. Android on Googles own product = heaven. Now if they could only be their own carrier!!!!!! How great would that be??? Nexus just needs to be Branded as Google, like Galaxy Is Samsung!

I am addicted to everything android. Its the only operating system that I can make my own, how I like its look, how I want it to function, and make it be a reflection of me… Unlike me being a reflection of my phone. I have wanted a Nexus 7 since it was released, but have never had the funds to own one. I can’t wait to get one of my own

Back when the original iPad was the only tablet in town, I bought one (but owned an Android phone at the time). It’s time to ditch that iPad, actually it was time to do that long ago, and what better way to do that then with a new Nexus 7…

If Android was a woman, I’d have married her. Or locked her in my basement.

Wes

I would love to win.

OTB

Android set me free on Verizon. Had wanted a Verizon iPhone before was available, but was so glad that Android came first. Will never move from Android to iOS. Can you imagine how many of us would be fanboys had verizon gotten the iphone before the first droid phone.

Corey Hedberg

You know what they say … Well do ya, I can’t think of it right now.

gsteele023

I love Android because you can make it as unique as you.

Ethan

Freedom of Android > any other OS

scott kirkpatrick

Android is tops for me, total freedom to customize!

Shane McKeever

You mean your phone doesn’t do this? I love Android

Adam Ystenes

One of these would go perfect with my phone.

Richard Golebiowski

it’s cool!

blackcatroad

Please O Please – my wife wont give up her galaxy tab

kylebrodeur

I’ve had an Android phone since the G1. I like how everything works and I like seeing it improve with every update from Google. I love being able to hack my phone an use custom roms and I love using the Google services.

I love android so much that I got my whole family using android phones instead of iPhones. I have owned about 10 android devices myself and rooted all of them. I have followed Droid-Life for almost 4 years now due to this android addiction.

I just want some portability along with my Galaxy Nexus! Haven’t been able to get a tablet!

Paul Pottle

Hook it up with a Nexus 7!!

CapnShiner

My love for Android knows no bounds! Last year, Android and I got married. It was a beautiful ceremony. All our friends and family were there, except Nook Color. He hasn’t been feeling well lately. Google Music DJ’d the reception. Everyone danced and had a great time. It’s been a good year for us. Next year should be even better! We’re expecting our first child! In keeping with tradition, we’re going to name him Key Lime Pie. Life is good.

The simplicity and funtionality of the Nexus 7 amazes me and to own one for the family will be a very kind late Christmas present… Hahah!

Kevin Dahlstrom

Please!

Michael Forte

Android is awesome…and I fell in love with it with the OG Droid. I wanted something other than the iPhone so I played with the Droid in the Verizon store one day and after that it had to be mine. Ever since then I’ve been an Android fanatic and I don’t see that slowing down anytime soon.

My love for android hurts me. I’m saddened to have to choose between many of the upcoming devices because in all honesty I want them all… Maybe I should go to rehab.

S2556

Would love a N7!

Jeff B

It’s open, it’s free, it’s customizable, and way better than anything ios can do

Christian Jacob

Its everything I need at my fingertips…I love how you can customize and how everything integrates so well with each other. I have an IPAD and IOS6 is easily surpassed in innovation by Jelly Bean. I love it!

eric roylance

Yep. Still here.

Ben

Please and thank you Droid-life! 🙂

Nirav Desai

Third time the charm. Count me in !!!

jaymi2282

Only been on iOs and would love a pure android experience.

Bryan

I love Android more than iOS. 🙂

Kurtlon L

Anticipating a win for this awesome device!!! Switched from Apple to Android about a year ago and won’t go back! I have to have my huge SD card for all my music I have on my device. Plus I don’t have to worry about using Itunes, such a double win!!! Looking forward to the chance to win this!

Neal Delaney

I check this site every hour or so just to see if there is something new i can do with my Android.

Drew Heavner

I would absolutely love to help solve the problem of the lack of quality tablet apps by having one to dev against 😀

Please Droid Life I want my Nexus back from my wife. She never “wanted one” until she saw mine. Now I only get to use my tiny Galaxy Nexus.

Erik Parshall

I love Android because it is nice and fair and an Apple a day certainly does keep the doctor away because when you are dying you won’t be able to afford medical bills because you spent all your money on the new iPad.

Thomas Bravek

I need a proper nexus!

Chuck Finley

I use it so much, I have to charge it at night!

Silver Veloz

I considered getting a 10″ tablet, but the 7″ seems like the right way to go for portability.

I’ve been an android fan ever since I played with my friend’s G1. It thought it was the next best thing to sliced bread. Since I was on Verizon, I just couldn’t wait to get my hands on an android phone. That’s when rumors started surfacing for the OG Droid. All I did was read forums for any specs, release dates, tips, what it looked like. I…was addicted. The first day the OG Droid was released on Verizon I scooped it up and never looked back. 2 years later, I retired my aging OG Droid for the VZW GNex and I can tell you right now that my next phone will be an android. Android4Ever.

angermeans

My love of Android is for Google’s clean and unskinned Nexus devices. This contest is full of the,pm. Only way to go in my humble opinion. Nothing like having a fully unlockable device that gets updates straight from the mouth of Google and their excellent developers.

Android is a breath of fresh air after my introduction to smart phones saturating with the iPhone. Being able to actually be able to use the operating system the way I wanted has bed amazing.

kselby

I love Android more than a fat kid loves cake

Dan Lopez

I hope I win. It’d be nice if something this cool ever happened!

Seanamous

I’ve been with Android since the OG Droid.about a month ago I switch to T Mobile and decided to give the windows HTC 8X a try, maybe find adopting a developing ecosystem enjoy as I did with Android. About a week later I ordered my Nexus phone. It’s all about Android.

I have been wanting a nexus 7 since my buddy got one. Would love to have this amazing device.

Francois Strydom

A tablet I need for my home automation greed!

Gabe

Would love a nexus tablet

Daniel J

I love it. There are no words to describe such a love.

dashwinegar

Wish I had an update for my Verizon gnex! (And I hope I win, my wife would love a nexus)

Joshua Rossi

Give it up

MasterEthan

Android is freedom for me to enjoy my devices however I want.

Mojorizen

Gimme gimme gimme

Scott Sochacki

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violator702

I win!

dannyWHITE

My current device is a Nexus 4

Running an OS I believe Android is best in

Blackberries and iPhone’s I’ve had before

But now my heart seeks to own a Nexus 7

zachjen

mmmm….love me some N7

W. Paul Schenck

I owned the OG Droid from the time it was released. I follow all the new and hang on every word from DroidLife! I have 4 Android devices personally and my family has an additional 8 devices. AnDroid Forever!

James Morgan

The N7 so rocks – I have one already but I want to give one to my wife 😉

My addiction to devices leaves me craving more each and every week. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever stop. I’m not sure how, since there is no rehab for something like this. I’m losing friends and family members over this, and to the arguments over iOS devices. Getting caught Staring like lifeless zombie at the computer, day by day, watching new specs and features, eating at me. Driving me crazy, wondering how will I get enough money this time for my next fix.. no more upgrades, no more money, all these new devices. I don’t know what to do, scratching my head wondering. How will I go on?

Then I come to Droid-Life and find a bunch of other Android junkies like myself, giving away devices that i crave so much, and it makes me feel much better that i am not alone in this world 🙂

Android changed my life with the OG Motorola Droid. I had used touch screen phones before but neither of them were Android or iOS. I was very skeptical that Android would be a fulfilling experience due to the past horrors of using other Verizon phones like the Samsung Glyde. I had never been so hyped to own a phone. When my roommate and I both had them, we used to just get pumped and yell that we ‘Own the best phone to date!’

Lester Washington

If I win,I will be so happy.

ortega408

I think iam the only one person in the world that doesn’t have a tablet.

Tim

Sure would like one of them nifty devices! Please!

Tyrian

why not

zwieblekopf

my kids get bored in the car!

Michael Gilliland

My love for Droid is as boundless as the sea, and as deep. The more I give to droid, the more I have, for both are infinite.

I started with the OG Droid and fell in love with Android because of its simplicity, abilities, and the fact that you could design it yourself. Now I build Android, and I’d sure love an N7 to do it with.

I love Android so much, if I die, I’ll use a giant nexus tablet replica as my gravestone. It will be awesome, because it’ll have touch functionality built in 😀 and will shock anyone who tries to steal it.

Good luck to all. Hopefully this is my next tablet. DL can make that come true!

David Shaver

Gimme gimme gimme

Eric Soriano

3rd time’s a charm!

Antonio Stephens

I love Android like a fat kid loves cake.

Jon Picking

Maybe today? Probably not, but for a free entry I might as well.

Josh

Android isn’t an OS.. it’s a way of life. And for us, no other phone or OS comes close. We pride ourselves in having the latest update, the fastest processor, and the best pixel density. We do not buy old tech, we wait… we wait until the very best just comes out (which we have known about months in advance) and then we pounce on it. We don’t measure our phones by the amount of apps in our store or the amount of gimmicks our OEM throws at us, rather we measure ourselves by our Quadrant and SunSpider scores.

My love for Android is great. I was an early adopter of the first Android phone, the HTC/T-Mobile G1. I’ll never forget returning home from school to find a box with my name on it a couple of days before it was to be released. Since then I’ve owned four more Android powered phones, five if you count my HD2 that would eventually be running Android. The open nature of Android is what attracted me to it. Anybody can make apps for it. And then the customization. I’ve yet to find anything that can’t be customized to your liking.

what I feel for Android is more than love. It is more of an obsession. I cannot get away from it. It is where I eat it is where I sleep it is when I drive my car it is where I work. My family is second place to Android.

Android hands down is the best Os out there for a number of reasons. But my favorite is the ability to customize the look of my device. I’m not locked into anything and can change it to be new and exciting anytime I want

Christian F

Android is the only operating system for me because of what it stands for

I love Android, but also qwerty slider phones, I hope they align again soon

Aceplanet

I love android so much because of all the freedom it provides to change whatever you want, there is only so much you can do with an iOS device or a blackberry or windows phone, but with android you can change almost everything, you can root, you can install custom roms, and personally i think that is amazing, we aren’t limited to certain things.

monsterenergy22

I need this for my long trips for school!

Stephen Winter

android makes me happy

tbas

Android is the best simply due to its open platform.

Jared Hininger

I have been needing to upgrade my tablet for awhile this would give me and excuse.

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
–William Shakespear

Android was the first mobile operating system I used. It has and always be my first love. I tried iOS and couldn’t cope. It just didn’t do it for me. Within a month I had sold the iPhone 4 and purchased a new Android phone. I will never look back again.

Yay I won! (this is so it will look like a natural comment if I actually DO win)

Craig Gomez

I’ve been a fan of Android since the Nexus One… I love Android and the fact that I can actually see the code and make changes if I want any… But with the grwoing Android community, I have to rely on sites like Droid-Life to keep me up to date!!

Android and I are in an open(source) relationship. (Don’t worry, I’m not seeing anyone else. Can’t say the same about Android, though.)
But for real, I love the Google service integration, the customizability, there is just so much to love!